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Heliotroop (est) at Opus Jazz Club
Courtesy of BMC - Opus Jazz Club | Posted on March 2, 2016
Where
Opus Jazz Club
Mátyás Street 8.
Budapest
Map
+36 1 216 7894
When
Thu, March 17, 2016
21:00
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Musicians
About
Heliotroop is an Estonian new wave jazz group showcasing some of the country's most notable personae both composition and performing wise. The sextet is playing music by the ensemble's bassist Mingo Rajandi and pianist Kirke Karja. Both have a distinct compositional voice that can be heard in several other groups they're leading, but combine into a perfect complementary whole in the fine-tuned soundscape of Heliotroop. The music is sculpted out in longer developed forms that are still very much driven by clear melodic lines of a song. Improvised solos are clearly important and speak of the musicians jazzy roots, but they are mostly carefully placed in the overall dramatic narrative of the compositions and don't fall into a succession of endless choruses of variations on the same harmonic loops. Text clearly plays an important part in both composers' approach - the pieces use both classic and modern Estonian poetry....